Well…

Posted on by November 5, 2025

I don’t think any of us were really surprised at what happened with the various state and city elections yesterday…

New York city got what they deserve. A Soros funded democrat/communist for mayor. And he’s also a jihadist, just to add a little spice in addition to never actually holding a job

. NYC will go even further in the toilet than it already is. And some of the ‘smart’ folks have already bailed to Florida, Texas, and other southern states. Of interest, the FDNY Chief resigned last night when the election was final (he’s Jewish, so he knew he was going to be gone). Money people are already moving to Dallas, so now it’s a question how long the NY Stock Exchange will last.

New Jersey and Virginia the dems voted for dems. No surprise there either… But, I was kinda stunned to hear that the VA NAACP actually promoted a white woman (DEI) over a black woman, immigrant, and veteran for state office. And they elected an AG who wanted to kill is opponent’s children! Yeah, he’s just the guy you want as the head law enforcement officer…

And Commiefornia passed Prop 50, which guarantees there will be no more Republican representation from that state… They are planning to redraw the map to make sure the Pubs can’t muster enough votes in any district, especially with ranked choice voting.

And now the Dem senators are apparently planning on continuing the .gov shutdown, even as airports start restricting flights to prevent accidents. And wonder who is going to pay folks to work, pay the military, and SNAP since they money doesn’t exist to extend the benefits again.

Now we get to watch and see what happens…

 

Wow!!!

Posted on by November 4, 2025

Just…wow… I thought the whole veterans bad thing was bad…

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, the State Department circulated an “optional” pledge, in which signatories agreed to refrain from attending church.

State Department security officer Mark Pemberton refused to sign the “optional” pledge. As a result, his own agency referred him to the Justice Department for investigation on the grounds that he was involved in “Religiously Motivated Violent Extremism,” or RMVE, according to a lawsuit he filed earlier this month against the State Department.

Pemberton said in his lawsuit that he first told his superior, Diplomatic Security Mobile Security Deployments Office Director Jeff Thomas, he was refusing to sign the voluntary pledge because he couldn’t wave his constitutional rights. Nor could he stop exercising his religious beliefs, he said. Thomas later retaliated by referring him to the department’s insider threat program.

Full article, HERE from Headline USA, and a video HERE.  h/t S.

Soooo, basically they went after him because he is a WASP and heterosexual. Therefore he ‘must’ be a threat to the Xiden administration/State Department… sigh.

What is unbelievable is that this has drug on for FIVE years! At least now he’s fighting back and from the reports seems to have a good case! Of course I’m NOT a lawyer, and we all know ‘where’ the case is filed and ‘who’ the judge is will play a major role!

I just hope he wins!

Grrrr…

 

Leftovers…

Posted on by November 3, 2025

Leftover Halloween jokes… What, you thought you’d get candy???

Q: What did the little girl say when she had to choose between a tricycle and a candy bar?
A: “Trike or Treat”?

Q: What do you call a fat pumpkin?
A: A plumpkin.

Q: What does a witch use to keep her hair in place?
A: Scarespray!

Q. Why do demons and ghouls hang out together?
A. Because demons are a ghouls best friend!

Q. Why can’t a male ghost father babies?
A. Because he has a hollow weenie.

Q. Why did the game warden arrest the ghost?
A. He didn’t have a haunting license.

Q.  What do you call a dancing ghost?
A. Polka-haunt-us

Q. What did the mother ghost say to the baby ghost as they drove down the street?
A. Buckle your sheet belt!
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 This Halloween, the only Candy I’m interested in swings from a pole.

Thank goodness for Halloween. All of a sudden, the cobwebs in my house are decorations!

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Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, “Never take candy from strangers.” And then they dressed me up and said, “Go beg for it.” I didn’t know what to do. I’d knock on people’s doors and go, “Trick or treat . . . no thank you.” ~ Rita Rudner
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A vampire bat came flapping in from the night covered in fresh blood and parked himself on the roof of the cave to get some sleep.  Pretty soon all the other bats smelled the blood and began hassling him about where he got it.  He told them to knock it off and let him get some sleep but they persisted until finally he gave in.

“OK, follow me,” he said and flew out of the cave with hundreds of bats behind him.  Down through a valley they went, across a river and into a forest full of trees.  Finally he slowed down and all the other bats excitedly milled around him.

“Now, do you see that tree over there?” he asked.

“Yes, yes, yes!” the bats all screamed in a frenzy.

“Good,” said the first bat, “Because I DIDN’T!”
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10 Things That Sound Dirty On Halloween, But Aren’t…

  1. So…What’d you get in the sack?

    2. Once you get under the sheet, start moaning and groaning!!!

    3. Just hop on that broomstick and ride it!

    4. Those small suckers are gone in a few licks!

    5. I got the best piece from that house.

    6. Quit screwing around on the porch!!!

    7. Stick your hand in and guess what you’re feeling….

    8. It was so full and heavy, I had to use TWO hands!!

    9. They’ll suck you dry if they get their teeth in you.

    10. I bobbed and bobbed, but couldn’t get my mouth around it!

A little humor…

Posted on by November 2, 2025

To start the week!

What Starts with F and ends with K

A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her
students. The teacher asked, ‘Harry, what’s your problem?’

Harry answered, ‘I’m too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the
3rd grade and I’m smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd
grade too!’

Ms. Brooks had enough. She took Harry to the principal’s office.

While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the
principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would
give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was
to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed.

Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he
agreed to take the test.

Principal: ‘What is 3 x 3?’

Harry: ‘9.’

Principal: ‘What is 6 x 6?’

Harry: ’36.’

And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader
should know.

The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, ‘I think Harry can go
to the 3rd grade.’

Ms. Brooks says to the principal, ‘Let me ask him some questions.’

The principal and Harry both agreed.

Ms. Brooks asks, ‘What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?’

Harry, after a moment: ‘Legs.’

Ms. Brooks: ‘What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?’

The principal wondered why would she ask such a question!

Harry replied: ‘Pockets.’

Ms. Brooks: ‘What does a dog do that a man steps into?’

Harry: ‘Pants.’

Ms. Brooks: What starts with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval,
delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid?’

Harry: ‘Coconut.’

The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.

Ms. Brooks: ‘What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?’

The princi pal’s eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the
answer, Harry replied, ‘Bubble gum.’

Ms. Brooks: ‘What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down
and a dog does on three legs?’

Harry: ‘Shake hands.’

The principal was trembling.

Ms. Brooks: ‘What word starts with an ‘F’ and ends in ‘K’ that means a
lot of heat and excitement?’

Harry: ‘Firetruck.’

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, ‘Put Harry
in the fifth-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong…… ‘

Stuff…

Posted on by November 1, 2025

Back in the day… Before things got stoopid…

I’ll have you know I got 2 of them! I managed to not get caught…

And it was my turn to cook, since it was ‘chilly’ yesterday, I did a southern favorite.

Shrimp and grits with collard greens and garlic bread. And I forgot to get hold my cousin in time to get actual tasso ham here…grrrr…

But everyone enjoyed it!

Oh yeah, and remember to set your clock back an hour…

This is…

Posted on by October 31, 2025

Odd, to put it mildly…

The U.S. Navy has replaced the admiral in charge of the Office of Naval Research with a civilian who has reportedly worked as a Department of Government Efficiency staffer, according to the service.

Rear Adm. Kurt. Rothenhaus, who has served as chief of naval research since June 2023, has been reassigned and replaced by Rachel Riley, who most recently acted as a senior adviser for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a Navy public affairs official confirmed in an emailed statement Thursday.

Riley worked at HHS as part of DOGE, the The New York Times previously reported, a job her LinkedIn profile shows her holding since January 2025.

Full article, HERE from Navy Times.

I have to say this one makes no sense to me. I worked there for 13 years, granted for an SES and GS-15, but the leadership were a Navy Rear Admiral (usually with R&D or acquisition background), and a senior Navy Captain as the XO.

Riley has no R&D or acquisition background but apparently was a ‘team lead’ in organizational transformation and organizational design for efficiency and speed of government organizations. And apparently she also worked on Chinese issues, in addition to being fluent in Chinese… Odd…

I can’t help but wonder how she will get the clearances she needs to be involved with certain projects/programs, much less understand the details of advanced research programs.

But that’s just me, and I’m no longer there. But I have heard a few folks I knew are bailing after the news…

Sigh…

 

Gah, really???

Posted on by October 30, 2025

One more egg to the face of LA…

The Los Angeles Fire Department brass was even more clueless than we thought. Bombshell texts show that L.A. firefighters were ordered to leave the scene of the still-smoldering Lachman Fire despite protests from the team left to watch it. Days later, and as feared, predicted killer winds caused that fire to flare up. 

As one of the text exchanges between the firefighters put it later, “And the rest is history.”

The conflagration that followed killed twelve people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Pacific Palisades and Malibu.

The Los Angeles Times reported that firefighters tending the aftermath of the eight-acre Lachman Fire on January 2 were told by their commander in a text that they needed to leave. The firefighters explained that the rocks and the ground where they were watching for hot spots were still hot to the touch. 

Full article, HERE from PJ Media.

As a former VFD type who fought ‘brush’ fires back in the late 70s early 80s, the cardinal rule was a firewatch was maintained until the fire was COMPLETELY out. Yes, it was a PITA, and usually involved at least 24 hours on scene, but trust me, palmettos WILL fire back up with the slightest winds… sigh

The bad part about the LA situation is that they knew there were wind events forecast, and my bet is that the brass didn’t want to pay the overtime to set the firewatch, because OT was a big issue for them. 8 acres turned into, what, almost 20,000 acres? and 12 lives lost, and how many homes/businesses…

But it is also California, where the econazis, yes I meant to use that term, got control of California, stopping normal fire protection burns, including those by actual forest rangers who are trained to do that, and prohibiting clearing of unsafe trees, brush, etc. (see Camp Fire, big trees within FEET of homes that could not be cut).

At least out here, everybody pitches in, including farmers with plows and their own bulldozers, helicopters, etc. to fight the brush fires because the winds can drive them for MILES out here, in addition to wiping out thousands of cattle, among other things.

Humph…

Posted on by October 29, 2025

Here we go again…

As the population of U.S. veterans becomes more diverse and vets’ needs, from employment to medical treatment, continue to evolve, the demographic remains among the most difficult to survey.

A subset of the general population, veterans are most easily reached en masse through Department of Veterans Affairs rolls. But that leaves approximately half of all veterans out, according to the Pentagon-linked Rand Corporation think tank.

Full article, HERE from Navy Times.

It seems like ‘we’ get a survey every couple of months from either the VA or .gov. And from what ‘we’ can see, our answers go nowhere. Agent Orange was one of, if not the biggest one. Those surveys went back to the 90s, and we finally got the PACT Act 2022 for ‘VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances‘… italics mine. So they snuck us in under the ‘other toxic substances’…

47 years later… And we’re losing Vietnam Vets at an average of something over 500/day. And yes, Agent Orange is definitely a contributory factor for those who served in country and in Thailand.

At least the Gulf War 1 and GWOT troops are getting treatment quicker!

But the reality is a lot of Vets have just given up on both the VA and .gov for any kind of care or help. I know I managed to talk at least two Vietnam vets into going to the VA and getting checked, and now both of them have over 50% disability, and one is getting treated by community care for skin cancer from Agent Orange.

If you know a vet, PLEASE get them to give the VA another chance, they deserve to have adequate care! Yes, I waited almost 20 years before I ever tried them, but honestly, I’ve been basically happy with the treatment and care I’ve gotten.

Very not good…

Posted on by October 28, 2025

This one is truly leaving a mark, and NOT in a good way…

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Hurricane Melissa made its catastrophic landfall along the southwestern coast of Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon as a historic Category 5 storm, lashing the Caribbean island nation with destructive winds well over 100 mph, torrential rains measured in feet and life-threatening storm surge. 

Landfall occurred at 1 p.m. ET near New Hope, Jamaica, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), with winds of 185 mph. Since landfall, Melissa’s winds have degraded, but it is still a dangerous Category 3 hurricane. 

The eye of the storm has passed over the western side of the island and has since re-emerged over the anomalously warm waters of the Caribbean, eyeing Cuba next.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

Folks, this is truly bad. Jamaica is not a rich country, nor are the people well off. The amount of damage will be horrendous, exceeding what we saw with Katrina here in the US. In total, Jamaica is only 146 miles long and varies in width from 22 to 51 miles.

And most of those folks had nowhere to ‘escape’ to. The island is not that big, and only has ONE major highway (T-3) that crosses the island from Spanish Town to the area west of Ocho Rios. All of the other ‘highways’ are at best secondary roads.

Some estimates say up to 1.5 million have been significantly impacted by the storm. At least it didn’t hit Kingston, the main population center, but Melissa was bigger than the entire island, with 3 FEET of rain predicted, and storm surges of 13 feet or greater.

A number of US organizations are standing by to go in as soon as possible to start rescue efforts, but food, water, and shelter are going to be an issue, especially on the western end of the island. And I’m not sure if Montego Bay will survive… It was a neat little coastal town back in the 80s…

So if you have a moment, say a prayer for those folks, and the ones in Cuba, and Bermuda who are next to be hit by Melissa…

PSA!!!

Posted on by October 27, 2025

If you’re a jerky eater and shopped at Costco or Sam’s…

More than 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat Korean barbecue pork jerky product shipped to Costco and Sam’s Club stores nationwide are being recalled over fears that it may be contaminated with pieces of metal, federal health officials warned.  

South Dakota-based LSI Inc. recalled its jerky product, labeled Golden Island fire-grilled pork jerky Korean barbecue recipe, after multiple consumers reported finding wiry metal in the product, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said in the warning notice posted on Saturday. 

The company discovered that the metal found in the products had originated from the conveyor belt used in production.

Full article and details, HERE from Fox News.

I know a lot of folks buy bulk from both Costco and Sam’s, so that’s why I’m sending this around.

Thankfully, ‘I’ haven’t bought any of that brand. Actually, my favorite jerky is Robertson’s, which is sold by Loves. But I haven’t really eaten any in 10 months, due to the pain meds and what it did to my stomach… sigh

Also, to be honest, I’m not a fan of Korean food… 🙂

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